Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Hamnet,’ Chloé Zhao’s Pic About the Shakespeares’ Love and Loss, Is Talk of Fest

Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Hamnet,’ Chloé Zhao’s Pic About the Shakespeares’ Love and Loss, Is Talk of Fest

Hamnet, the latest work of the wonderful Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao, who won best picture and director Oscars for 2020’s Nomadland, is an adaptation, written by Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, of O’Farrell’s bestselling 2020 novel of the same name about the Shakespeare family. A tearjerker of the first order, it has become — in the wake…

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#‘All of Us Strangers’ Star Andrew Scott on “Playing Love” After ‘Fleabag,’ Working Opposite Paul Mescal: “Couldn’t Have Imagined Doing It With Anyone Else”

#‘All of Us Strangers’ Star Andrew Scott on “Playing Love” After ‘Fleabag,’ Working Opposite Paul Mescal: “Couldn’t Have Imagined Doing It With Anyone Else”

As All of Us Strangers begins to rack up the awards season accolades — so far being nominated at the Gothams, Film Independent Spirits and National Board of Review Awards — stars Andrew Scott, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell premiered their film in Los Angeles on Saturday night alongside writer-director Andrew Haigh. The project stars…

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#‘All of Us Strangers’ Director on Importance of Casting a Gay Actor as His Lead: “There’s So Much Nuance That I Was Trying to Get to”

#‘All of Us Strangers’ Director on Importance of Casting a Gay Actor as His Lead: “There’s So Much Nuance That I Was Trying to Get to”

Andrew Haigh says that when it came to casting for All of Us Strangers, his romantic fantasy inspired by Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, it was important that his lead — played in the film by actor Andrew Scott — be gay. The writer-director opened up about his approach to casting and talked about shooting the…

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#‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Are Too Magnetic to Be Mired in All This Dystopian Murk

#‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Are Too Magnetic to Be Mired in All This Dystopian Murk

After providing the raw fodder for Charlie Kaufman’s characteristically cryptic I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Canadian novelist Iain Reid serves up more brain-bender material in Garth Davis’ Foe. Anchored by emotionally raw performances from Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, with Aaron Pierre as a stranger bringing equal parts seductive charm and understated menace, this brooding…

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#Paul Mescal Says He Was “Too Afraid” to Talk to Pedro Pascal Before ‘Gladiator’ Sequel Filming Began

#Paul Mescal Says He Was “Too Afraid” to Talk to Pedro Pascal Before ‘Gladiator’ Sequel Filming Began

Paul Mescal is opening up about being nervous during his first interaction with his Gladiator sequel co-star Pedro Pascal before filming began, and why the highly-anticipated film has him “stressed.” In a recent interview with Esquire, conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike, the actor said he actually saw The Last of Us star at LAX airport…

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#New York Film Festival Unveils Spotlight Slate With ‘The Boy and the Heron’ and Garth Davis’ ‘Foe’ Starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal

#New York Film Festival Unveils Spotlight Slate With ‘The Boy and the Heron’ and Garth Davis’ ‘Foe’ Starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal

The 2023 New York Film Festival has revealed the lineup for its Spotlight section, featuring world premieres of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s Showtime series The Curse, starring Emma Stone, and Garth Davis’ Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal starrer Foe. Other noteworthy Spotlight selections include the U.S. premieres of Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in a…

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